Mary H Collins

Holiday Short Stories Mary H Collins

A Christmas Homecoming: Jazzy loved Nash, but she knew she couldn't accomplish her dreams of becoming a famous fashion photographer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She had to move to New York City. With her gone, Nash had no reason to go to their local college. He took his parent's advice and went away to WKU in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Two years in the cold and snow and the best job offer Jazzy had had was a studio photographer in a department store. She was barely living above poverty level. Thinking of being alone on Christmas brought tears to her eyes, but she couldn't go home and take the critical looks of her friends and everyone else knowing that she was a failure. If only Nash would call her, it would give her hope. The last time she'd heard from him was the night she told him that she was going to New York. He didn't ask her not to go; he just turned and walked away. True Family: Zinna had spent the last few years searching for her baby boy. She was only seventeen when she got pregnant and when she told Zack, he told her he couldn't be tied down; he wanted to pursue his football career. Her parents sent her away to have the baby. She could do nothing but give him up for adoption; she had no where to keep him and no job to support him. After taking a few college courses on line, she got an entry level job and soon applied to a state community college. With her associates degree, she landed a better job and slowly worked her way up. She saved every penny she could to pay down on a house in the same neighborhood where her son's adoptive family lived. After five years, she would finally get to hold her son. Now she had to plot a way to get him back. She never expected to be included in the holiday festivities with her son's adoptive parents. It would break their hearts for her to take him away but it would break her's if she didn't.